Communications and Program Coordination Consultant
World Bank Group
📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Full Time ⏳22/08/2025
DECDI’s Prosperity Lab (DECPR) is hiring a consultant to support training, communications, recruitment, and operations for DECPR and the DIME Analytics team. The role includes organizing flagship courses, managing participant communications and internal systems, and promoting DECPR’s work. The consultant will also support hiring and internship activities, as well as budget tracking. Candidates should have strong writing and organizational skills, experience with academic communications and event coordination, and an interest in development research. Apply here by August 22, 2025, 11:59 PM ET. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
About Development Impact (DECDI)
The Development Impact Group of the World Bank’s Development Economics VicePresidency (DEC) generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity. It develops customized data and evidence ecosystems to produce actionable information and recommend specific policy pathways to maximize impact.
The work is based on a co-production model aimed at transferring capacity and know-how to partners to make mid-course corrections and scale-up successful policy instruments to achieve policy outcomes. These corrections yield substantial returns on investments, vastly outweighing research costs. Spanning across more than 60 countries, the Development Impact Group has conducted over 200 impact evaluations, shaping $26B in development finance, and provided advisory services to over 30 multilateral and bilateral agencies.
Beyond research, the Development Impact Group's commitment extends to investing in public goods to enhance the quality and reproducibility of global development research. From Development Impact Wiki, toolkits, training programs and summer schools, the Development Impact Group is servicing the global community of researchers and, in so doing, improving the quality of global policy advice.
Central to the Development Impact Group’s approach is the 'trial-and-adopt' technology, which revolutionizes development practices through a portfolio-based operational strategy, prioritizing continuous learning, scalability, and intervention adaptability. This methodology has proven to amplify the impact of development finance by learning from past mistakes, selecting cost-effective solutions, and optimizing policy and investment designs. The core idea follows three principles:
Learn: Integrate rigorous trial-and-adopt technology into projects to test and learn what works to achieve impact.
Adapt: Wire in the flexibility for projects to adopt high-impact solutions, grounded in rigorous evidence.
Scale: Apply these approaches as a portfolio, replicating and scaling what works across the regions and beyond
By engaging government counterparts throughout the policy cycle and embedding machine learning, events studies, and experimental research in projects, the Development Impact Group drives policy interventions towards their efficient frontier, maximizing costeffectiveness and value for money. The Development Impact Group seeks to broaden the application of this technology across World Bank operations and partner countries for maximum development impact, shaping a future where informed decisions pave the way for lasting positive change. The Development Impact Group has 5 programs:
Planet Impact Lab
People Impact Lab
Prosperity Impact Lab
Infrastructure & Digital Impact Lab
Behavior Science Lab
More information can be found at https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/unitdec/impactevaluation/programs.
Position Overview
Duties include, but are not limited to:
Training and Event Coordination: Support the planning and execution of DIME Analytics and DECPR flagship courses and programs, such as Reproducible Research Fundamentals, Manage Successful Field Research, the Government Analytics Fellowship, and technical trainings in Python and R, as well as Continuing Education sessions. This work will involve close coordination with presenters, speakers, and the DIME Events team to manage logistics and ensure smooth delivery. The consultant will also be responsible for managing internal course systems like the Open Learning Campus and the Open Science Framework, handling participant communications, responding to email queries, and posting session materials in a timely and organized manner. Event promotion and marketing will be integrated into this workstream, ensuring that each training receives adequate visibility among relevant audiences.
Communications: Manage both internal and external communications for the Analytics team, ensuring that all materials and platforms reflect current activities, achievements, and offerings. This includes maintaining and updating websites and external resources, developing communication materials such as one-pagers, newsletters, and briefs, and promoting publicly accessible tools and outputs. The role will also involve supporting the creation of visual and audiovisual content, including infographics, presentations, and short videos, to highlight key achievements and engage stakeholders across the development research community.
Recruitment: Coordinate recruitment efforts in collaboration with the DIME Recruitment and Analytics teams, focusing on the batch hiring of short-term consultants and interns. Tasks will include identifying and managing graders for technical assessments, facilitating communication with technical specialists to support dashboard development, and ensuring smooth coordination across teams.
Intern Program: Support the Summer Internship Program by conducting outreach to feeder schools, organizing onboarding activities, planning and implementing seminars, networking events, and other programming to enhance the intern experience.
Operational and Budget Support: The consultant will provide operational assistance across DIME Analytics programs, including supporting routine budget monitoring, tracking expenses, and assisting with revenue calculations. They will also contribute to broader program development efforts as needed, ensuring that all activities are implemented efficiently and aligned with team goals.
Other Duties: The consultant may be assigned additional tasks by the Analytics team, depending on evolving priorities and operational needs
Qualifications Required
Education/Experience:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. communications, marketing, journalism, international relations, public policy).
Skills and Experience:
Prior background in in communications, knowledge management, public affairs, or international development are a plus
Demonstrated experience in promotion and dissemination of content, notably academic content. Ability to synthesize technical information (especially economics research papers) succinctly.
Experience supporting content creation (e.g., writing newsletters, blogs, or social mediaposts) or event coordination (e.g., webinars, workshops) is desirable.
Experience in design, photo, video and audio production (Canva, Adobe Suite e.g. Audition, Premiere, inDesign).
Familiarity with Flourish, web content management systems (AEM, Mailchimp) and/or previous programming experience is considered an asset.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Experience in event planning.
Experience of development work is an advantage.
Language Skills:
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English are required.
Fluency in other World Bank working languages, particularly French and Spanish, is strongly preferred.
Other Qualifications:
Eagerness to collaborate with colleagues of diverse backgrounds, skills, and experience.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Resourceful and self-starter, excited to work on a dynamic and fastgrowing team.
Demonstrated interest in impact evaluation and/or reproducible research.
We seek candidates with excellent organizational skills who can adapt to the changing needs of the program.
Contract Arrangements
The selected person will be hired as short-term consultant (STC) for up to 150 days of work between September 2025 and June 2026. In general, consultants are expected to provide all the equipment needed for their position. The onboarding will include set-up of remote access to internal World Bank systems; the Analytics will provide technical support as needed.
Feedback & Performance Management
The STC will agree on both their work and professional development objectives with their hiring manager at the beginning of the contract period. STCs will have two review meetings during the fiscal year to discuss progress on those objectives, any changes, and feedback on performance. STCs are responsible for initiating the check-in meetings.
Application Process
To apply, please submit a CV, a statement of interest, and a portfolio of your communications-related work samples (e.g. social media content, blogposts, brochures/flyers, case studies) best reflecting your abilities using this form by 22 August 2025 11.59PM ET. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
